From: Thomas Worm <usenet@...4r.de>
Date: 2007-07-19T19:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: identify and extract positions from a string - how to?

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:31:12 +0900, Marc Hoeppner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not quite sure about how to approach the following problem:
> 
> I have a long (long long long) string of letters, a genomic sequence
> (600k characters+).
> Now, what I want to do is to extract certain parts of this string, based
> on the position.
> So for example lets say I want all characters from position 2340 to
> 5436.

What about

puts "My String"[5..7]

Thomas